Quotes About Ambition

At the Baron's elbow walked Feyd-Rautha. His dark hair was dressed in close ringlets that seemed incongruously gay above sullen eyes. He wore a tight-fitting black tunic and snug trousers with a suggestion of bell at the bottom. Soft-soled slippers covered his small feet.

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

Your Kwisatz Haderach?" "Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug…so many, but none has succeeded." "They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

La prudenza è la via della mediocrità. La mediocrità priva di passioni è tutto ciò che tanta gente crede di poter raggiungere.

La cautela es el camino de la mediocridad. Una mediocridad que fluye sin pasiones es el máximo que la mayoría de la gente cree ser capaz de alcanzar".

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

School, Frankie, school. The books, the books, the books. Get out of Limerick before your legs rot and your mind collapses entirely.

I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.

Several salesmen focused on how many "bars" they made. To derivatives salesmen, a "bar" is not a place to go for drinks. A "bar" is a salary, a huge salary, with a long line of zeros, at least six of them. On Wall Street, you never said, "I make a million dollars a year." You said, "I make a bar." Lots of DPG employees made bars, often several. Of course, I, too, wanted to make bars, and by the end of the day I was salivating.

Believe in your dreams, but more importantly believe in yourself; because that's where dreams begin.

Man is always so," said Father Willibald, "be he heathen or baptized; content with his lot only as long as he meets no neighbor who possesses more.

Even if you cannot fully match my skill at composing verses," he said, "yet be of good cheer. Remember that it is granted to the poets to drink from the largest horn at the banquet of the gods.

it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.

Düz bir yolda yürüyor olsayd?n, tüm ilerleme isteÄŸine raÄŸmen hala gerisin geriye gitseydin, o zaman bu çaresiz bir durum olurdu; ama sen dik, senin de aÅŸa??dan gördüÄŸün gibi dik bir yamac? t?rmand???na göre, ad?mlar?n?n geriye doÄŸru kaymas?, bulunduÄŸun yerin durumundan ileri gelebilir, o zaman da umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmana gerek yoktur.

There was always something in me to catch fire, in this heap of straw that I have been.

That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted. (Wenn es möglich gewesen wäre, den Turm von Babel zu erbauern ohne ihn zu erklettern, es wäre erlaubt worden.)

If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago.

can venture nothing for myself as long as I have achieved no greater work that satisfies me fully. That is certainly irrefutable.